From: Hans Mackowiak Date: 2013-03-06T21:48:53+09:00 Subject: Re: Bignum-Fixnum-Numeric confusion its because of your 32 bit architecture so i think (10**9).object_id == (10**9).object_id #returns true (10**10).object_id == (10**10).object_id #returns false for you? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.